On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:41 AM, jiahwei
<backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
> I tried setting up the rsync. But I didn't see that /etc/services/init.d has 
> the rsync services.

You can run rsync as a daemon but it's not required.


On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:55 AM, jiahwei
<backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
> I tried to backup .
>
>
> But I got the following error.
>
> Not too sure where did I went wrong.
>
> full backup started for directory /home
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root gisnb225 /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender 
> --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times 
> --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /home/
> Xfer PIDs are now 9311
> Read EOF: Connection reset by peer
> Tried again: got 0 bytes
> Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
> Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior 
> one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)

Did you setup the rsa keys so you can log into the remote machine
without a password? I have recently written a fairly extensive message
to this list on how to do just that so I won't repeat myself.

Richard

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